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Kindra Meyer is ECD at brand experience agency Verb, Ad Age's Experiential Agency 2024, where she partners with clients and internal leads to ensure flawless execution and breakthrough cultural impact. She is an outspoken, queer leader who has spent 23 years conjuring up disruptive ideas at integrated, traditional and experiential shops. From inventing the world’s first cell phone karaoke for Microsoft, to launching the first car on Snapchat for Ford, to putting furries courtside at an NBA game to launch Mr + Mrs Smith, to building real life Polly Pocket compacts, her work has generated billions of impression and nabbed numerous awards including The Clios, One Show, Shortys and Ex Awards. LONGER VERSION IF ROOM Kindra Meyer is ECD at Verb, an award-winning brand experience agency whose work spans from activations such as Airbnb’s Barbie Dreamhouse to guerilla stunt heists for Amazon Prime’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith (hint… Tyra Banks + furries + Knicks game…) — earning over a billion earned impressions. An outspoken queer woman with a passion for mentorship and an advocate for diversity and inclusion, Kindra is a proud member of DoTheWerq, and founder of She Stacks, a women’s financial empowerment movement. Kindra is an EMM queen with a superpower for getting people to actually care about brands by pairing bold creative with real value. Throughout her 20+ year media-agnostic career at experiential, integrated and traditional shops, she’s helped legacy brands like Ford, Airbnb, Google, and T-Mobile connect with new audiences in bold ways, and copped some shiny awards. But the reason she’s stayed in the industry this long is leading, empowering and learning from young talent (and then getting out of their way). As an industry veteran, she wants to leave the ad industry a safer, more diverse, transparent place than she has too often experienced.